Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin's labour camps, is one of the greatest poets of this century. Brown's 1978 volume is a very full and important book which tells of Mandelstam's earlier life and gives an introduction to the poetry. Professor Brown tells as much as will probably ever be known about Mandelstam's early life, his studies, his literary relationships; and recreates in piquant detail the intellectual world of prerevolutionary St Petersburg. Indeed, the criticism of Mandelstam's three collections of poetry, quoted both in Russian and in translation, manages the seemingly impossible: the reader with no Russian begins to grasp - as though at first hand - how this poetry makes its effects, and he senses its originality and importance and its place in European literature. Professor Brown here presents the first critical study of the life and works.

Author: Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/28/1978
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9780521293471
ISBN10: 0521293472
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Soviet
- Literary Criticism | Asian | General
- Literary Criticism | European | General

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